Kseniya Simonova, Amazing Sand Drawing
December 9, 2009
Video:YouTube
First of all let me just say that I received this as an email and so the text below is not mine, however I thought it best to describe this video just as it was sent to me.
This video shows the winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent”, Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Please take the time to watch the video, I am sure you will be glad you did.
Meteor lights up early morning sky in Utah, 18th November 2009
November 22, 2009
Video: KSL TV via YouTube
This meteor sure did turn night into day for a fraction of a second. What continually surprises me with things like this is how many people seem to have their mobile phone video cameras ready to go. I just hope that one of these things never comes to close to our little town.
Barred Eagle-owl, Strange but cute
September 2, 2009
Video: Stupidvideos.com
I recently stumbled on this video of what I think must be one of the strangest birds in the world. It looks so much like a furby. When I looked them up on Wikipedia, they do actually exist and are not fake.
See this link below on Wikipedia.
Paraplegic David Blancarte healed by miracle spider bite
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This seems to be an amazing story, but I am sure that CNN would not have run it if it didn’t have some form of truth to it. You make up your own mind.
Motivational Posters: Expendability
March 29, 2009
Photo: dr_lutovsky on Photobucket
It’s not a good sign when you get given a red top to wear.
Website: dr_lutovsky on Photobucket
Money’s too tight to tight to mention: An anthem for these tough times
March 14, 2009
Video: YOuTube
This song seems to have transended time, either that or things have always been tough. But seriously, with the way the world economy has crashed this would seem to be the most appropriate song for 2008-2009.
That’s Illegal
February 28, 2009
Video: Metacafe
Some of these laws are absolutely crazy, this just makes me think that some of these early day politicians were definitely on some sort of happy weed. Or they just wanted to mess with our heads.
Sam, The thirsty Koala
February 12, 2009
Video: YouTube
Sam is the famous Koala who got a drink from a friendly Firefighter by the name of David Tree. She seems to have won a few hearts around the world. Apparently she grabbed the hand of David and drank 3 bottles of water.
Scariest trail ever found in Spain
February 7, 2009
Video: VLADTV.COM
This trail sure is about as scary a walking path that you would ever like to hike along. I don’t know why this trail was put here, but I would like to find out more about it.
On closer inspection of the video it appears that the path had something to do with an old irrigation or water supply system, and the path allowed the workers access to the control systems or for the building of the system to take place.
650 Million Years in 1 Min. and 20 Sec
January 31, 2009
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Video: Break
One day my great great great 1 million times over grand children will be able to walk all the way to China. Kinda cool if you think about it.
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